Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Society is better off without certain people.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

In a superior civilization, as, for example, that of the Indo-Aryans, the being who is without a characteristic form or caste... would emerge as a pariah. In this respect America is a society of pariahs. There is a role for pariahs. It is to be subjected to beings whose form and internal laws are precisely defined. Instead the modern pariahs seek to become dominant themselves and to exercise their dominion over all the world.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

Nothing can be more repugnant to the individualism and love of freedom of the British race than the Hindu caste system, under which every man is born into a particular water-tight compartment from which he cannot emerge except through death and rebirth …

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.